Re:Binary Wordle
by tylerchr on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:58AM
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My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”
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Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.
5 bits would be a weird size for a word.
I don’t think the parent’s argument would change if he had made an 8-bit Wordle.
Knuth's "Art of Programming" had a hypothetical machine with 5-bit words.
Baudotle
It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...